Andrea Marcolongo is a writer possessed of a lively intellectual curiosity and her two most recent books have startlingly different subject matters while sharing a fervent attachment to the world of ancient Greece. Sean Sheehan “Shifting the moon from its orbit” arises from Marcolongo securing permission from the […]
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Violent deaths through traffic accidents in Guatemala
An average of six people die every day from traffic accidents in Guatemala, 191 every month and more than 2,000 a year. After murder, road accidents constitute the second highest cause of deaths in this Central American territory. Zeus Naya Less than a week ago, a bus lost […]
‘Inglorius basterds’, dark shadows and other revelations
It might have been just another classic World War II tragedy, had the director’s vision been more complacent, or his fans stricter sticklers for history, but Quentin Tarantino has always been a rebel. Fausto Triana “Inglorious bastards” marks a break in the dark Nazi chapters of the dramatic […]
Rafael Barrett’s Paraguayan sorrow
The voice of Rafael Barrett’s is as needed now as it was in the aftermath of what at the time he rightly called “history’s most merciless war”. Sean Sheehan He was referring to the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-70) – resulting in the death of half the […]
South America before colonization
The continent that is South America had been culturally alive for 14,000 years before Europeans arrived, from nomadic hunting and gathering groups to the multinational, quasi-imperialistic state of the Incas. Sean Sheehan Ancient cultures are never fully recoverable but where Homer left us two major texts to puzzle […]
















